The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-12

might contain reception rooms, reading
rooms and a woman's restaurant is, how
ever, increasingly felt, and has been not
infrequent topic of discussion which has
sometimes gone almost to the limit of plan
ming with Brooklyn Woman's Club, which
is at least as enterprising a body as any
across the river.
WOMEN AS SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
The question of the appointment of women
on the Board of Education which agitates
Brooklyn, might find considerable support
from the quiet, transformations way in which
Mrs Agnew and Miss Dodge have gone
about their work in New York Neither
has anything to say. Neither has submitted
to be interviewed. Both have taken very
modestly, but very emphatically, the posi-
ton that they were learners put in new
position, face to face with new problems,
whose first duty was to familiarize them
selves with the work, not to advance theo-
ries about it. Both have spent much time
collecting and systematizing information
about the schools and visiting their own
special district thoroughly. The school
board may get better work from the teach
ers since their appointment in a way that
was not taken into account. Il feel more
self-respect and respect for my sex" said
teacher i'll one of the big primaries the other
day, ''Since | found myself and my work
fairly under the supervision of a woman.
can see its effect, too, in the greater respect
that is shown me as a woman teacher, or
that at least imagine feel"
Maria Mitchell is one of those women
whose influence over other women, espe-
cially young women, is unbounded. With
the white curls about her neck and the
straightforward, direct look that is a unique
charm in her eyes, her girl students at Vas
sar seem to feel it not merely necessity,
but the highest of privileges, to do whatever
she wishes. She lives in the observatory,
with the telescope running up through the
dome in the middle, space for recitation
rooms and for the most charming of domes-
tic manages being found in the two stories
of the wings on either hand. Prof. Mitchell
discovered the first telescope comet spied
out by woman since Caroline Herschel an
noUnccd the last of her eight ON Oct.
|, 1917, in recognition of which the
King OF Denmark sent her a gold medal.
She has made valuable observations on ne
bulae, and has been employed in the compi-
lation of the Nautical Almanac and on the
coast survey, doing work that has won her
recognition in scientific circles everywhere.
WOMEN DRAMATISTs FASHION MATTERS.
Miss Ada Webster Ward, who assisted Mr.
Stockton in the dramatization of THE Late
Mrs. Null" might figure as an embodiment
of activity and life. She is very slender of
figure, 1.-THE, dark haired, with gray eyes
under long black laSheS, and looks at once
energetically American and lndescribably
foreign. If there is anything in willing it,
she will make one OF our new American
dramatists.
The close of the social season and the adj
journment to the country is marked by ex-
travagances that look suspiciously like the
last desperate struggles of boredom trying
to be gay. Imagine dwarf grapevines
trained on rustic silver trellises as dinner ia
bic ornaments. the fatigued and quite too Ian
guild guests plucking their dessert an 1lqtu1
Ell, in pursuit of sensation, from the vine. 1t
would not surprise one if the chase after the
novel, the determination to overdo things a
little more than the last dinner given, should
result in a return in disgust to simplicity as
the only thing left that is really new. After
all, what business has velvet or embossed
satin or mirrors OF whole flower gardens and
parks on a dinner table? Doesn't everybody
know in the bottom of her heart that ex-
quisitely fine white linen and spotless silver
and glass and higher art are incomparably
better taste?
The cover coat is now dark green or
brown instead of the pale tan it has been so
long. BY the way, imitation is the sincereSt
fattery, and Mrs. August Belmont Jr., who
introduced the garment to New York notice,
likes to he fattered. She must be in an en-
viable frame of mind.
Inc lageSU JnlnS III DOaUlng dresses is WnlGe
linens, the thickest and heaviest to be OBJ
tanned, with girdle and trimmings of blue.
Short is the reign of the most popular
craze. Heliotrope, two months ago all pow
erful has gone the way of things fashiona-
be. Fastidious people have thrown it over
for gray now.
A small, gray tulle bonnet, its only trim
ming bunch of roses with a couple of nat
ural buds thrown in to heighten the illusion,
is the accented keadceer in Vanity Fair inst
now
A parasol, when it gives mind to the effort,
can carry about 500 worth of gold and
jewels incrusted i'll its stick and embossed in
its satin cover. E. 2. H.